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"59 Jack Kevorkian Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 26 May 1928. Died: 3 June 2011 | Pathologist | Euthanasia |

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Carry Cases Doctor Duty
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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
Aim Euthanasia Experience Make
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I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

Getting Illegal Knew Most
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
Best Decide Go Patient
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Data Determine Doctor Duty
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Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

Among Doctors Doing General
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My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Area Centers Considered Conventional
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

Absolute Adult Autonomy Choice
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
Contempt Enjoyment Like Looks
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
Care Cite Contempt Don't Care
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

Although Business Illness Involved
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I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

Best Car Care Clothes
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Am Because Common Criminal
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

India Ireland Laws Life
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I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

Call Court Go Only
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
Knows Maybe Out Prison
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

Away Good Liberty Life
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Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

Agony Death End Fear
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

Agony Any Crime Doing
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Let's hope you feel better now.
Better Better Now Feel Hope
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Absolutely Advice Always Autonomy
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Cannot Decision Existence Had
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

Law No Law Trial Lynching
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There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Die Doubt Expect No Doubt
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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Big Choice Free Free Speech
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I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

Did Does Fought Me
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

American American People Any Bowl
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

Afraid Against Cause Forces
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What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

Close Fairly Friends Nice
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

Boredom Crossword Mental Puzzles
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

Cleaning Demeaning Find Toilets
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
Cares Die Every Five
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

Anyone Anyway Board Criminal
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

Age Choice Dark Failed
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Back Die History Knowing
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Conscience Follow Immoral Law
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

Man Me Terrified Terror
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.

Colleague Come Else Fighting
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

Built Country Determine Die
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
Any Could Crime Enlightened
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Accepting Death Include Knock
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
Best Friends Guy Kind
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Death Gotta Know Life
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I have no regrets, none whatsoever.
No Regrets None Regrets Whatsoever
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
Born I Was Born Life Moment
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I am not a sentimental person.
Am I Am Person Sentimental
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

Die Helping Killer Patient
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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

Adult All People Authority Blanket
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

Anytime Asking Because Course
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

Affect Any Anybody Anybody Else
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Jack Kevorkian Quotes & Sayings